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Heroic Rooney’s goal downs Liverpool
Heroic Rooney’s goal down Liverpool
Manchester United produced the ultimate smash-and-grab victory at Anfield as Wayne Rooney’s 78th-minute goal decided a game barely befitting of England’s two most decorated clubs.
While Rooney was the match-winner with the visitors’ only shot on target, David de Gea was the man who made the 1-0 win possible with a string of saves and was the far busier of the two goalkeepers.
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It was just Rooney’s sixth goal in 24 appearances for both Everton and United against Liverpool and his first at Anfield for 11 years but it edged him to within seven of Bobby Charlton’s club record of 249 and lifted his side back up to fifth, two points behind Tottenham.
Louis van Gaal’s tactics may have been criticised as boring – and one shot on target in 90 minutes hardly did much to alter that – but he will see them as fully justified after leaving Merseyside with all three points.
The game was a reflection of the two clubs’ current fortunes; both trying to rediscover their identities under foreign managers.
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